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Aldila Rahma; Djati Mardiatno; Dyah Rahmawati Hizbaron – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2024
Environmental degradation and global disaster encourage the education sector to devise adaptation and mitigation strategies. The scientific approach, from intradisciplinary to interdisciplinary, has urged education into a different array. These narratives provide a context for how disaster risk education must incorporate ecological understanding…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Risk, Environmental Influences, Universities
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Di Wilmot; Sarah Witham Bednarz; Munazza Fatima; Alfonso Garcia de la Vega; Regula Grob; Johanna Mäsgen; Sophie Wilson – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2025
This paper critically reflects on how transformative learning (TL) is described both conceptually and as a process in the literature in different fields and national contexts. We articulate a definition of TL and justify why geography education is an ideal vehicle for enabling it. This is followed by a series of case studies explaining how TL can…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Transformative Learning, Climate, Cross Cultural Studies
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Sharon Bramwell-Lalor; Therese Ferguson; Miguel Ison – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2024
The Ministry of Education, Youth, and Information (MoEYI) in Jamaica engaged in curriculum reform, producing the National Standards Curriculum (NSC) for Grades 4-9. This paper reports on a content analysis of the Grades 4-6 curriculum to determine the representation of Climate Change (CC) content, pedagogies, and activities for supporting Climate…
Descriptors: National Standards, National Curriculum, Educational Change, Science Education
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Lucia Kovácová; Lubomír Held; Katarína Kotuláková – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2025
The greenhouse effect poses a significant environmental challenge to humanity today. Research shows that many students lack adequate knowledge about this phenomenon. To address this issue, we have developed educational materials that utilize various instructional approaches to improve primary school students' understanding and attitudes toward the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Climate, Environmental Education, Logical Thinking
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Wu, Jing; Otsuka, Yoshiki – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2021
As human-induced climate change rapidly increases, information about climate change permeates each aspect of society. This study examines how learning sources pertaining to climate change influence self-reported pro-climate behaviour in adolescents. Cross-tabulation method, combined with correspondence analysis, has been conducted on data obtained…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), Student Behavior
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Cebesoy, Ümran Betül – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2019
A two-day workshop was designed in order to increase awareness of pre-service teachers about the role of forests in adapting and mitigating the effects of climate change. In this workshop, five different activities were developed to reflect five sections, which are listed as forest strengths and weakness, general knowledge on climate change, the…
Descriptors: Climate, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Refugees
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Clausen, Søren Witzel – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2018
Weather formation and climate change is an important topic in the Danish geography curriculum. The curriculum requires both the student to acquire knowledge and skills, but also the personal development for active citizenship. This "dual perspective" might be a complex task to embrace for a teacher, but it is not well described in…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Foreign Countries
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Ho, Li-Ching; Seow, Tricia – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
This qualitative study examines how climate change scientific knowledge is framed and positioned within the Singapore and Philippines school curricula in relation to broader citizenship concepts and ideas. The findings reveal that climate change is taught in very different ways within both education systems. The Singapore case demonstrates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Qualitative Research, Citizenship
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Chang, Chew-Hung; Pascua, Liberty – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2016
Climate change is an important theme in the investigation of human-environment interactions in geographic education. This study explored the nature of students' understanding of concepts and processes related to climate change. Through semi-structured interviews, data was collected from 27 Secondary 3 (Grade 9) students from Singapore. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Secondary School Students, Grade 9
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Seow, Tricia; Ho, Li-Ching – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2016
This qualitative study examines what four pre-service and six practicing geography educators in Singapore schools believe to be the purpose of climate change education, and how this intersects with their beliefs about student readiness to handle controversy within climate change education. A key finding of this study indicates that the teachers'…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Geography Instruction
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Schubert, Jan Christoph – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2015
Preconceptions are a crucial factor in the educational learning process. Hence, the investigation of preconceptions is important for learning and teaching in the field of geography. This study examines the preconceptions of 12- and 13-year-old students, regarding the major environmental problem of "desertification." The students'…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Content Analysis, Interviews, Student Attitudes
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Chang, Chew-Hung – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2012
Reflecting on a personal journey as a geography student, an academic, an educator and a teacher trainer, the article provides a critical narrative of the state of school geography in Singapore and argues that its development has remained relevant to the changing issues at a global level. Using personal reflections and document analyses, school…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Geography, Foreign Countries
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Reinfried, Sibylle; Aeschbacher, Urs; Rottermann, Benno – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2012
Students' everyday ideas of the greenhouse effect are difficult to change. Environmental education faces the challenge of developing instructional settings that foster students' conceptual understanding concept of the greenhouse effect in order to understand global warming. To facilitate students' conceptual development with regard to the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Environmental Education, Grade 8, Climate
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Leguizamon, Saturnino – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2010
The term "geospatial technologies" encompasses a large area of fields involving cartography, spatial analysis, geographic information system, remote sensing, global positioning systems and many others. These technologies should be expected to be available (as "natural tools") for a country with a large surface and a variety of…
Descriptors: Cartography, Geography, Information Systems, Foreign Countries
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Obermaier, Gabriele; Schrufer, Gabriele – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2009
When discussing the topic "Hunger in Africa" with students, incorrect and biased ideas on the causes for hunger are revealed. In order to change the students' personal concepts it is necessary to become acquainted with their mental models. Therefore, a survey of Geography students' different personal theories concerning "Hunger in…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Population Growth, Scientific Concepts, Hunger
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